Days after at least 15 people, including a child, were killed in a deadly shooting on Bondi Beach, new data shows that gun ownership in Sydney has been on the rise, with many buying multiple firearms on a single licence.

India has summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over recent threats to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.

The Trump administration cited "terrorist presence" and "criminal and extremist activity" as reasons for the ban.

Paris' Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, remained closed on Wednesday, as its staff continued discussions on whether to extend a strike over pay and working conditions that started on Monday.

A former morgue manager at the prestigious Harvard Medical School was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the US Justice Department said.

An accused gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims.

Days after the attack on an anti-Sheikh Hasina radical leader in Bangladesh, the Muhammad Yunus administration in Dhaka has sought India's help to arrest and hand over the shooters.

The rupee is among the worst-performing currencies globally this year, sliding 6% against the dollar as a widening trade deficit, punitive 50% US tariffs and investment outflows have dragged it to a record low of 91.075 per dollar.

Mexican lawmakers got into a physical altercation on the floor of the Congress, with videos showing female legislators pushing and pulling each other's hair.

While the BBC has previously apologised for its "mistake", it insists there is no basis for a defamation case and said on Tuesday it would fight the lawsuit.

Nick Reiner, 32, was charged Tuesday with killing the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced at a news conference with LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell

As Delhi and swathes of northern India choke under a blanket of toxic smog the AQI in the national capital was 437 at 4 pm Tuesday and 370 8 am Wednesday the Chinese embassy posted a note on X to underline relative success in Beijing's AQI fight.

Rhetoric seems to have eclipsed the grim realities of Pakistan, once again.

Extraordinary footage shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father-of-two who arrived in Australia from Syria in 2006, emerging from behind a parked car, grabbing the shooter from behind and wrestling the weapon from his hands.

The surviving gunman from the father-son duo that killed 15 people on Sydney's Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration has regained consciousness after being in a coma.

A Bloomberg News analysis found Trump's $100,000 H-1B worker fee could have a disproportionate impact on multinational staffing firms that act as middlemen for companies seeking H-1B workers.

A 28-year-old Indian-origin man has been charged with first-degree murder by US authorities after he allegedly beat his 67-year-old father to death with a sledgehammer at their home in Schaumburg, Illinois.

People familiar with the investigation said rigor mortis had already begun by the time Romy arrived, a development that typically occurs hours after death.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is being subjected to "psychological torture" in a "death cell", according to his sons Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Isa Khan, who fear they might never see their jailed father ever again.

The lawsuit addresses withholding of funds for two programs: $1.8 billion for the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant program, and about $350 million for the Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator program.